While many former Bond girls have later failed to escape from under 007's formidable shadow, Olga Kurylenko's career has flourished since the 33-year-old Ukrainian played Camilla Montes in 2008's Quantum of Solace. Determined to prove her versatility, the model-turned-actor will soon be seen in two different films. She stars first
'Oblivion' actor cuts bonds to advance career
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"There's also some romance, which is written quite beautifully. The way that Joe wanted to do it was like all those movies from the 1940s as it's very clean and pure." Kurylenko plays Julia Rusakova, a mysterious astronaut who is rescued by Tom Cruise's Commander, Jack Harper, after her spaceship crash-lands nearby. "I can't really give it away but he brings me home and that creates a lot of questions in their lives," she says. "He and his wife (Andrea Riseborough) are like the last survivors on Earth as all the other people have left and gone to other planets. The Earth has become impossible to live on and they're like a mop-up crew, which is also about to leave."
Kurylenko says Oblivion's big-budget production was the polar opposite of the improvised methods Terence Malick adopted on To The Wonder.
"There was a lot of spontaneity and real things as you just became your character. You would never prepare a scene ... he just turned the camera on and you were your character 24/7."
Oblivion opens this Thursday, April 11.